Shooting 480i on tape for DVD distribution. Help please!

[DGW]

I will be shooting an educational/training video for a University to be distributed statewide on DVD. It will be approximately 18 minutes in length. I will be using the 480i SD mode and was planning to use the squeeze mode, edit in FCP and produce the DVD in DVD Studio Pro. This DVD will be played back on everything under the sun (i.e. tube tv, plasma, lcd, widescreen, etc).

I will tailor the scene file the best I can. I don't want to use the P2 modes on this project. I'd like to get more familiar with it on smaller jobs first.

Is this plan the best approach since I cannot master out for a specific viewing display?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[David Jimerson]

You can shoot 480 (in all modes) to the P2 card, too. Will save you some steps and some headaches.

Definitely shoot squeeze.

 

[DGW]

Do you believe the result will be acceptable on the wide range and types of TV's the DVD will be viewed on, or do you have a better suggestion?

 

[Jason Adams]

dvd players can letterbox 4:3 content. I would go wide screen.

Actually I would go 720 since you have the camera. I just a did a university project. Shot 720 24PN. Delivered Broadcast SD DVDs and Youtube from that project.

If you must go sd then I would shoot squeeze, but I would shoot to the p2 card. Its a great workflow and you can get a lot of content on the cards.

 

[DGW]

480i footage

480i footage

dvd players can letterbox 4:3 content. I would go wide screen.

Actually I would go 720 since you have the camera. I just a did a university project. Shot 720 24PN. Delivered Broadcast SD DVDs and Youtube from that project.

If you must go sd then I would shoot squeeze, but I would shoot to the p2 card. Its a great workflow and you can get a lot of content on the cards.

Thanks for your help. I shot 15 hours of footage on 7-11-09 to both tape and P2. I only had a 16GB card, and could not find spare time to offload it on site. Now that I am editing in fcp, I setup for 16:9 anamorphic and the footage looks pretty good. I did shoot squeeze. I will experiment with 720 24PN for my next project. Thanks again...Dan!